So what would you do with Benjamin census records, or William's will? Put them all under John's name? Or how about you find out Benjamin was William's brother and the names of William's children, but you still don't know who John and Benjamin's children were? Or you have only the names of one or two of their children?
Sounds like a can of worms to me, but if it works for you, who am I to complain? I'll stick with entering them as separate individuals, and cross-referencing them in Notes. As I always say; that's the beauty of Legacy. There are always multiple ways to customize the program to fit our individual needs and ways of thinking. Connie --- On Wed, 8/10/11, Virginia Dunham <geistdn...@gmail.com> wrote: Connie,I would enter (as in your example) John as the primary...and then add William as an AKA and then Benjamin as an AKA. This "method" started when I was researching family members with very "sketchy" information which led to muliple candidates. Having unlinked individuals simply did not work for me ... since my "maybe maybe not" entries are marked as private, I do not worry about them making a public appearance...unless I want someone else's opinion. I always create PDF's which I edit before printing...and the "private" setting is easy to catch. Virginia On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Connie Sheets <clshee...@yahoo.com> wrote: To each his own, I suppose, but I would think entering multiple people as AKAs would only serve to confuse things. There are several men named Hancock living in the same vicinity in southern Illinois. I have no idea which one (if any of them) is the father of my gggrandmother. The only way I'm going to answer that question is to research each of these men and identify their children, their associates, their events. I may never find anything that says John Hancock is the father of Jane Hancock, but I may eventually find something that proves the names of William's children, and Jane isn't among them. Or that the third possibility, Benjamin Hancock died 11 months before Jane was born. <snip> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
